(Reuters) – The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said they administered 2,127,143 first doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country on Monday morning and distributed 11,445,175 doses.
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The count of vaccine doses distributed and the number of people who received the first dose are for both the Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech, COVID-19 vaccines as of 9:00 am ET on Monday, the agency said.
According to the count published on December 26, the agency administered 1,944,585 first doses of vaccine and distributed 9,547,925 doses.
The agency also reported 19,055,869 cases of new coronavirus, an increase of 145,959 cases from the previous count, and said the number of deaths increased by 1,345 to 332,246.
The CDC reported its case count for the respiratory disease known as COVID-19, caused by a new coronavirus, starting at 4 pm ET on Sunday, compared to its previous report a day earlier.
CDC figures do not necessarily reflect the cases reported by individual states.
(Reporting by Manojna Maddipatla in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel)
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